Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 319, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1920 — CIGARETTES DID THIS. [ARTICLE]

CIGARETTES DID THIS.

(By the Keeper of Nut Hollow) wel shouted the managing ed u I let myself in through the transom this morning and patted Magnolia the office cat on the head with the btove poker better stir about and see if you cant find something to *put in the paper because the sub* scribers are howling something awful because we havent had any news since germany signed the parchment and I guess that wab all bunk because they haven’t done anything since. Now for instance there’s the chicken show that started yesterday and folks are interested in chickens so you might go and see the man and hear what he has to say about chickens and I. said what do I care what he has to say about them for haven’t I had experience enough of my own with them and he said people dont care anything about you or your experiences so I said all right I’ll go and ask the man because I guess you want something risque for your readers and I went up the street and met a man running with bis coat off and his vest flapping and I said what was the matter and he said haven’t you heard and I said heard what how would I hear anything working for a newspaper and he said all about the chicken show and I said where is it and he said up the street and I said are they New York French American or Turkish chickens and he said they aint neither their White Wyandottesand I said what the ell kind of chickens are those and he said if you go see the man he will tell you all about them and so I went on up to where the chicken show .was and started in when the man ।at the door stopped me and asked 'me if I had a ticket and I said a ticket for what and he said to see । the chickens and I said what for do ' I need a ticket and he said because we charge to get in here and I told him that I didn’t have no money to buy a ticket with and he said o and l asked him was a big crowd ;in side and he said a big crowd of what and I said a big crowd of people of course and he said o he thought I meant chickens and then he said no and I asked him when they were coming and he said he didn’t think they were coming and I told him that I met a man running down the street who was all excited about the show and he said well-? paid him for acting that way and I asked him did it' keep him very busy taking tickets and he asked me did I want 'to go inside'and I ‘said yes if he insisted so i went inside and walked up to - one of the cages that had chickens ;in it and I said o aint them cute animals and he said them aint animals thems fowls and I said o and asked him if that was all there was to the show and he said yet except four more days and handing out the prizes and I. asked him did he think the fowls would live until one could carry them home aftd he said he was going to feed and water them pretty soon and did I want to watch him and I told him no and he asked me was I going to pay him for looking at them and I said no and he said well that don’t surprise me because no one has paid me yet and I told him I didn’t think his record would get busted and he said he didn’t neither so I went out and he said be sure and come 'back next year and I told him that I didn’t think I could stand the excitement that soon again and he said o.